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Rebuild Latex file on change and refresh PDF preview
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README.md

Rebuild Latex file on change and refresh PDF preview

Scripts that rebuild a Latex file and refresh PDF preview on a Mac. Allows edit of tex file to refresh in PDF to see live rendering.

Open Script Editor and create script called refresh-preview.scpt

tell application "Preview" to activate
tell application "WezTerm" to activate

Edit the Makefile to specify the tex file your editing.

Run the following in a terminal to get live rendering of your latex document.

./watch
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Makefile
preview: my.pdf
my.pdf: my.tex
@echo "Reloading ..."
@pdflatex my.tex >/dev/null
@open my.pdf
@osascript refresh-preview.scpt
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
make --always-make preview
fswatch -o ./*.tex | xargs -n1 -I{} make preview
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